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Originally Posted by Kymmy
You're talking very much about a two tier country.. You have on one hand the people who have actually managed to get an education and on the other side the rest..
The "rest" believe in old style cultural methods and unfortunately this is one of them..
When we lived there the live-in house girl would put her bed up on bricks so the evil spirits wouldn't take over her body as she slept...
There are so many other stories I could tell you of what they believe and also the way that the past and current goverments lie to them (for example before the elections in the early nineties a freind who was selling his house was accosted by his gardener as to why he was selling "his" (as in the gardeners) house? It transpired that one of the political parties was going round telling the people in the townships that by voting for them that they would make it legal for them to take possesion of thier employees assets and properties... That party won and unlike the Zimbabwee land grabs nothing ever happened (the goverment isn't that stupid!!!)
That country seriously needs an education system that works and in 20-30 years time that country could be great and probably free from a lot of crime that happens today purely due to cultural issues  |
So true and the cultural differences are what make it so difficult to get to grips with Africa as a whole..But then the west had a tendency to ignore the way natives lived in Africa and the way they already had well tried governments and tribal boundaries and imposed their own boundaries and laws that had no bearing to the natives.
What could you expect from Victorians who wouldn't even dress for the climate and tried to force the natives to conform to Victorian values.They learned little then and the west still hasn't learned much more...